Your comment is now at the top of this page because you posted something others agree with but offered no suggestion as to combating ACTA or raising awareness. I don't know if I'm more annoyed by your comment or by the voters.

Well if I ran the circus I would go launch an investigation to find out which individuals wrote these bills, get the meeting minutes in which they were discussed, etc. Then I would publicly interview these faceless nameless bureaucrats on TV and make them run for election instead of being buried in the depths of various obscure government agencies, NGOs, law firms and lobbying organizations where they can just pull these 100 page long bills out of seemingly nowhere and get them passed with hardly a whimper from the public.

The meme of 'they're better because at least they admit they're an arsehole' needs to die.

No, it's just that their's quite a large number of assholes to go around and the primary problem of civilizations is keeping them acting in the best interest of the governed.

It's a perfectly valid point of view (btw: point of view != argument).

Everything else being equal, a well defined opponent is much easier to fight that a vague one, or one that presents itself as your friend.

But everything else isn't equal - the reason why 'their' governments can and 'our' governments can't is because it is so much worse there. It's silly saying that 'at least the chinese gov't is honest' because for a start it's not, and secondly because they already have the strongarm power to halt dissenting opinions. First-world countries generally have a ton of avenues to make your voice heard with some degree of fairness. Lauding China because the government already has such iron-fisted control that it can be more straightforward is just stupid.

The meme of "The meme of ... needs to die" needs to die.

Then why use it in your rejoinder?

Because recursive expansion is amusing. If this was Reddit, this thread would be at least ten comments long by now!